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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Zizyphus jujuba

Common Names
Da-Zao; Jujube; Ta-Tsao
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
3-P-COUMAROYLATE 0 Plant *
ALPHITOLIC-ACID 2 Plant *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 460.0 3882.0 -0.04 *
ASH 0 Fruit 6000.0 35000.0 -0.56 *
ASH 0 Leaf 86000.0 -0.58 *
ASH 0 Seed 13000.0 17000.0 -0.93 *
ASH 0 Shoot 108000.0 0.13 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Fruit 0.2 700.0 1.20 *
BETULIN 13 Bark Jim Duke's personal files.
BETULIN 13 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
BETULIN 13 Stem Bark Jim Duke's personal files.
BETULINIC-ACID 22 Bark 10000.0 0.65 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETULINIC-ACID 22 Fruit 48.0 1800.0 -0.45 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETULINIC-ACID 22 Plant *
BETULINIC-ACID 22 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
BETULINIC-ACID 22 Stem Bark 15.6 768.0 -0.10 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETULINIC-ACID 22 Wood Jim Duke's personal files.
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 260.0 1602.0 -0.52 *
CALCIUM 28 Leaf 19700.0 0.09 *
CALCIUM 28 Shoot 800.0 21600.0 0.50 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hepatotoxic 2 *
Herbicide 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hyperglycemic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypnotic 1 Schultes, R.E. De Plantis Toxicariis e Mundo Novo Tropicale Commentationes XXXVI. Justicia (Acanthaceae) as a Source of an Hallucinogenic Snuff. Economic Botany 44(1): 61-70, 1990.
Hypocholesterolemic 9 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic 7 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 165
Hypolipemic 2 *
Hypolipidemic 1 *
Hypotensive 10 *
Hypouricemic 1 *
Immunomodulator 7 *
Immunostimulant 5 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant 2 *
Insecticide 1 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Insectifuge 1 Martindale's 28th
Insectiphile 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinogenic 2 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Interferon-Synergist 1 *